DeviantART is proud to announce our Premium Content Platform

Providing the ability for content creators to become sellers and generate real earnings by making digital files of their high-quality work available for download. Sellers are able to set their own prices while retaining 80% of all revenue earned, and buyers are able to quickly get the things they want with the satisfaction of supporting the artists they love.

The Premium Content Platform was built to represent high-quality content — the premier pieces in an artist's repertoire of work. We encourage the sale of everything from comics or stories for download, to high-res files like .PSDs, textures, tutorials, brush packs, and more!

DeviantART Points are a virtual currency that can be used to buy virtual and real goods on deviantART. Points can be purchased using a credit card or PayPal, and one U.S. dollar is the equivalent to 80 Points. A buyer making a Premium Content Platform purchase must use Points for the transaction.

Buyers make Premium Content Platform purchases with Points.While all payments are made in Points, earnings from work sold can be withdrawn as U.S. dollars via PayPal or check, or converted into Points.

Buying Premium Content is a straightforward and user-friendly process. Simply click the "Purchase" button, ensure you have enough Points available to make the transaction, enter your password, and agree to the Seller's Agreement. Your download will start immediately!

To assist future buyers, we encourage previous buyers to rate sellers on a five-star scale. It only takes a moment to rate a seller and feedback is critical to helping others make purchasing decisions.

Sellers enter into an agreement with the buyer on each download. When making a download available for sale, sellers can use a standard Personal Use/Personal Non-Commercial Use License Agreement or can insert their own Custom License Agreement.

Supporting Artists, Empowering Buyers

The majority of work on deviantART will always remain free. Members and visitors will still be able to browse and download millions of deviations at no cost. The Premium Content Platform was built to represent the premier pieces in an artist's repertoire of work. Our aim with the Platform is to provide a place where artists are able to sell their work and feel empowered and dignified by receiving a deserving share of the earnings. Buyers are able to directly support the artists they love through purchases made on the Premium Content Platform.

The Premium Content Platform launch is a staged release. All members are currently enabled to buy content. However, only a small segment of deviants have been granted the privilege to sell. Over the next few weeks, more and more deviants will be given the privilege to become sellers. Those who have the ability to sell will be notified with a Hot Topic notification in their Message Center.

DeviantART is proud to announce our Premium Content Platform — sellers are able to set their own prices while retaining 80% of all revenue earned, and buyers are able to quickly get the things they want with the satisfaction of supporting the artists they love.

What, isn't your advertising revenue enough? Now you want commissions on the sale of exclusive work that your less-than-privileged membership cannot access?

Not for me. Sounds simply like you want to be competitive with Patreon because it's turning out to be a revenue source that you're missing out on.

To me, this violates the underlying values that we as a dA community share: communication, open support, sharing of our work, critique, commentary, discourse. What the Premium Content Platform is doing is distorting the dA site in the service of monetizing art, thereby making its own nefarious contribution to the creation of two classes of people: those who can afford to purchase images in exclusive versions not posted at dA, and those who cannot.

And then there are people like me, a third class: those who will not, regardless of whether or not I can financially afford this kind of acquisitive behavior.

I see it as a way for people to support artists that want exclusive content! No one is going to force you or your favorite artist to use it. It's better that DA has this option so that fans can stay on this site instead of splitting their fan base with other places like Patreon

Hello! I have recently updated one of my products and have upped the pricing on it as well. I was wondering, will this affect the price for my customers who have already purchased my product? I do not want my customers (who already paid before the price raise) to pay for the extra fee to download the updates as the price raise is intended for my future customers. I would greatly appreciate if anyone can confirm this.

Hello Heidi, I use the premium content tool for almost all my stock works, so thanks for that I know it has been mentioned numerous times already, but I'd like to express one more time how useful it would be for both deviantART and its users to have a separate browsing page for premium content.I believe that a lot more people would spend their points on premium works if they could be directly pointed to it.Just wanted to say that

The Premium Content is awesome, I love it a lot. It automatically download after payment but i have a few problems.. First, when we set our own price, why do we have to go by 5 and start with 10 points ? Second, how come we cannot see who bought the products? Third, after the buyer bought your items, they can rate the product out of 5 stars. But what's the point for that if no one can see it except the buyer who rated it ?

Does the Premium Content have a dedicated store? So I can browse digitals downloads only, or is there a filter for the existing shop?

I'm currently doing picture research for a HP Lovecraft book, and the main picture libraries don't have a decent selection of suitable artwork, so this DeviantART Premium Content is of big interest to me. Can anyone suggest any other premium picture sites that might be useful?

I do have one question though. If the premium content (that was purchased and the points in one's earnings haven't been withdrawn yet) was deleted, will the points gained from this purchase be deleted as well?

That makes sense, but what about purchasers who don't want to be identified? There are privacy and anonymity issues involved for the purchaser which I think should take precedence over the wishes of the seller, just as in any other "online" type purchasing.

I'm curious what the privacy and anomymity issues are for the purchaser. A purchase of Premium Content on DA is not broadcast to the entire community. It is private between the buyer and the seller. In almost every other marketplace on the internet buyers and sellers are not seperated like they are here (Etsy, eBay, Amazon, etc). Where else in "online" type purchasing is the buyer completely occluded from the seller? Also, many people use psudonyms on DA so there already is a fair amount of privacy simply because people use something other than their own name. Letting a seller know that "IDrawUnicorns" purchased Premium Content from the sellers page doesn't appear to be a breach of privacy at all.

I've purchased some Premium Content. I was suprised when I found out the seller did not know it was me who purchased the content. I would guess that most people purchasing the Premium Content aren't aware that the seller cannot see who they are. It is not an advertized (or even talked about) feature except here in this thread.

Also, if your content appears elsewhere on the web for free or for sale, you'll be able to narrow down the suspects. That way you can either contact your lawyer to help you receive monetary damages as those purchases could and should have been yours, or, you could contact the deviantART Help Desk and have the admin team put some disciplinary actions in motion.

would fan art be in violation of the "content that is original to you and/or that you have the full authority to offer the content for sale"? if someone commissioned a image of a character from a tv series or something?

Not sure what's really going on here. So far I like (the art, the diversity) that I have seen. All looks very complicated, but I guess that I'll learn as I go. I've just thrown out a couple of my paintings as a way of wading into this. Will see what happens. Oh yes, compared to most (all) of you, I'm nearly computer illiterate.

So is this only for .pdf sales? Like, multiple page documents?That makes sense, but this article makes it sound like anything can be sold using Premium Content Platform. If that is the case, how is it any different than the buyers copying and pasting the picture?